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When:
Oct 27, 2014 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
2014-10-27T08:00:00-07:00
2014-10-27T09:00:00-07:00
Monday, October 27, 2014 8 AM PDT/10 AM CDT/ 11 AM EDT
Participants: Lisa Nakamura, Elizabeth Losh, Anne Balsamo
Goals / Topics:
Feminist learning networks in and about Technology
The Case of the FemTechNet Collective
Describe the DOCC as alternative genre of MOOC
How is the DOCC a distributed learning network?
#ccourses Tweets
- SESSION #1 Readings
- A Pedagogy for Original Synners, Anne Balsamo & Steve Anderson
- The War on Learning, (MIT Press), Liz Losh
- A Work of Feminist Technocultural Innovation: Creating an Alternative Genre of MOOC, Anne Balsamo
- Case Study #1: FemTechNet’s DOCC: “Dialogues on Feminism and Technology”
- Aims of FemTechNet
- DOCC 2013 organization, process, and outcomes
- Critical DOCC pedagogies:
- Wikistorming
- Keyword Videos
- Object Exchange
- Feminist Mapping
- Selfie Network
- Learning Games
- Live Dialogue: Anne Balsamo, moderated by Liz Losh
- Talking point: 3 things to have teachers think about when designing courses to be delivered on the web: How NOT to be sexist and racist when designing web-based courses!
- Weekly Newsletter = New Materials posted on FemTechNet Digest Magazine
Reading / Background Material:
- The War on Learning, (MIT Press), Liz Losh
- “Beyond MOOC Hype,” by Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Education
- “An Open Letter to Professor Michael Sandel from the Philosophy Department at San Jose State University.”
- FemTechNet White Paper- Transforming Higher Education with Distributed Open Collaborative Courses (DOCCs): Feminist Pedagogies and Networked Learning (September, 2013)
- Document on Accessibility by Stephanie Rosen and the FemTechNet Accessibility Committee
- FemTechNet Magazine, ed. by Anne Balsamo
- Video: How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist by Jay Smooth
- Website: http://femtechnet.org/